Don’t dis the early-adopters. If it weren’t for them, new products wouldn’t be profitable, and therefore wouldn’t be mass-manufactured for everyone else. You owe every successful piece of technology you own to the early-adopters.

I think Tullo way overstates the case for early adopters. I’m not an early adopter, but I do appreciate they serve a function in mass marketed goods. I think the success of “every successful piece of technology I own” is due to MANY people: thoughtful and sensitive designers, engineers and accountants, who listen to the public (which includes those voracious early adopters) and make appropriate adjustments, including scrapping the really bad objects entirely.

Phil, allow me to restate: you owe *the success of* every piece of technology to the early adopters. You can build the best device ever, but if nobody pays off your initial engineering costs, there will be no financial incentive for your investors to pay for a larger, more cost-efficient production run.

Wait… huh? This makes no sense. So, if I’m the FIRST one to buy a product say 6 months after it was released, I’m still an early adopter?
There’s no such thing as early adopters, just people who stood in line before you.

any time a major innovation is released to market (new generation consoles for example) are released and a MUCH MUCH higher price than they are sold for 6-12 months later. why? because since there’s only been a small number of the product produced economies of scale haven’t been achieved so prices are much higher.

If the “it” in “bragging about it” refers to overspending (and it must as far as I can tell, for this to make sense), then shouldn’t the “bragging” circle be wholly inside “overspending”? Since “bragging about overspending” must be a strict subset of “overspending”.

Furthermore, since “bragging about overspending” could also take the guise of, say, buying certain brands over others, then “early adopters” should be a strict subset again of the earlier subset.

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